Day 101 – Cherry Blossom
“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” ~ Pablo Neruda
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“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” ~ Pablo Neruda
“Fragrant o’er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.” ~ Maria Gowen Brooks
“Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.” ~ Maria Konopnicka
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March! Bayard Taylor
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” ~ Iris Murdoch
“Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.” ~ Ikkyu
“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“And Spring arose on the garden fair, Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley